Sushi

Do you still eat it? I mean the good stuff, not imitation crab and cooked shrimp. I so want sushi today and my husband is an enabler because he thinks the fear mongering surrounding sushi is unwarranted.

I LOVE sushi and eat it atleast twice a week which ive cut down since i eat it more often than that normally, but this is my 4th baby and ive ate sushi and cold cuts with my other pregnancies and they are healthy and no issues.

I had sushi with my first pregnancy, but I limited it to once every two weeks. I think the mercury is more of a worry for me than the raw fish. It also depends on what type of fish you get - for the mercury levels.

My OB advised me to wait until my 2nd trimester with DD. I will do the same this time. I usually do the smoked salmon. We moved to a place without a reputable sushi place though, so I will probably only eat it a handful of times while we're in our hometown this pregnancy. I wouldn't eat the sushi here even if I wasn't pregnant. Yuck.

Overall the reccommendation is to avoid. However, if you go to a trusted place (like best of the best for food safety standards) then indulging every once in a while I think is fine. I think it's all about what kind of risks you are willing to take and what reputation the sushi place has.

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